I couldn’t disagree more with Clinton that Obama would vote ever against himself, but I do think he’s right when he insinuates that if the economy is the only consideration the president will lose badly in November — which might be the case if it’s only one of many considerations.

“No one, not me, not anybody else, no one could have completely healed that and built a whole new economy and brought us back to full employment in just four years. It has never been done in the history of the world. It can not be done. The test is not whether you think everything is hunky-dory. If that were the test, the president would vote against himself. He says that everything’s not hunky-dory,” President Clinton said at an event in Miami where he was campaigning for President Obama.

Clinton started the “even I couldn’t have fixed this economy in four years” pitch at the Dem convention, and he doesn’t look like he believes a word of it. Do you recall being offered the “**Lower sea levels, lower deficits, free everything and global harmony will take longer than four years to achieve — your Hope & Change™ mileage may vary” disclaimer in 2008? Clinton’s 2008 convention speech in which he endorsed Obama offered no such “it’s going to take two terms to fix this” warning.

Almost four years ago, President Obama certainly seemed to think a one-term recovery was possible, so much so that he understood his presidency would be at stake if it didn’t happen:

Clinton says Obama has taken the country in the right direction. Here’s where we stand today:

–The national debt has increased over $5 trillion dollars since Obama took office. The national debt now exceeds $16 trillion. The federal government has just hit its fourth straight trillion-dollar budget deficit.